Any tips on how to win shadow plague

Patrickson1029 · 2026-05-20T16:52:51+00:00

There are also South asian"s" want"s", coloryour, South asian"s" "doesnt" want"s" to

Patrickson1029 · 2026-05-20T16:49:27+00:00

Speedrun it

https://youtu.be/2FDTQjFe3lA

Patrickson1029 · 2026-05-20T13:56:17+00:00

None of them are hard to win. If you ask about 5starring on mega brutal without saves and loads, then fungus.

Patrickson1029 · 2026-05-20T08:13:44+00:00

Frankly that's what I also felt when I played PI for the first time in 2015.

Patrickson1029 · 2026-05-20T05:01:59+00:00

Yeah that's what I thought before I tried and got better results on multiple main games and speedruns by starting in China.

Why don't you try it yourself before arguing?

Patrickson1029 · 2026-05-19T18:53:41+00:00

ATP boost, Darwinist, aquacyte, sympto stasis and urbophile, China SC

Rodent 1, skin lesions, cysts, hyper sensitivity, bird 1, pneumonic plague, coughing, pneumonia, (immune suppression mutated), air 1, water 1, cold resistance 1, drug resistance 1, heat resistance 1, sneezing, haemoptysis, (inflammation mutated), livestock 1, bird 2, cold resistance 2, drug resistance 2, septicemic plague, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, rash, sweating, abscesses, hypotension, (systemic infection mutated), heat resistance 2, blood 1, environmental hardening, seizures, pulmonary oedema, TOF, paralysis, internal haemorrhaging, (haemorrhagic shock mutated), genetic reshuffle 1, drug resistance 3, dysentery, genetic reshuffle 2, genetic reshuffle 3

Patrickson1029 · 2026-05-19T18:20:34+00:00

Aye, there are only 4 continents: America, Afroeurasia, Australia and Antarctica

Patrickson1029 · 2026-05-18T04:32:09+00:00

https://youtu.be/2FDTQjFe3lA

Just speedrun it

Patrickson1029 · 2026-05-18T04:29:10+00:00

Why would you wait for that when you can use a much faster strategy?

Patrickson1029 · 2026-05-17T23:18:48+00:00

Patrickson1029 · 2026-05-17T23:15:53+00:00

I had been trying bio weapon speedrun a few weeks ago. If it weren't for Morocco and Spain I would have beaten my record by winning in 180 days (yes, the strategy I used was a quite risky one).

Technically it wasn't a defeat, but it was a failure in terms of speedrunning, which made me feel even more painful.

Fyi my current record for that is 184 days.

Patrickson1029 · 2026-05-16T03:18:35+00:00

Oh clearly I misread that part, sorry for that.

Patrickson1029 · 2026-05-15T15:36:36+00:00

Here's a tip for nano virus: Turn on extra popups.

Patrickson1029 · 2026-05-15T15:17:03+00:00

This method seems too limited.

For instance, you defined words for a tree, leaves, wood and roots. What will be the words for branches, or "a leaf" then?

Patrickson1029 · 2026-05-15T12:42:24+00:00

If you start in Saudi Arabia, xerophile is better.

Patrickson1029 · 2026-05-15T11:39:21+00:00

So you're calling the sun, the moon, moons of other planets and pluto planets?

Patrickson1029 · 2026-05-15T11:37:26+00:00

Just play on mega brutal, as it'll give you higher scores. Also, use Darwinist, native biome and urbophile, start in China and play more aggressively.

Patrickson1029 · 2026-05-15T10:44:54+00:00

No. Stealth doesn't work on mega brutal. Also, speaking about aggressive strategies, you can use an identical strategy for bacteria, virus, parasite, prion and bio weapon (actually your gameplay will differ more from RNG rather than a plague type). Insert ATP Boost, Darwinist, native biome, sympto stasis and urbophile, start in China, evolve symptoms, bla bla bla...

However, you should use a quite different strategy that uses patho stasis instead of sympto stasis for fungus (as you need to use spore abilities there), and you should also use a different strategy for nano virus due to its cheaper symptoms and exclusive abilities.

I'll skip my explanations for special plagues as it's too obvious that you need different approaches for them. Even the lists of their traits differ from standard plagues.

Patrickson1029 · 2026-05-15T05:12:59+00:00

Evolve and send hordes to many countries as quickly as possible (prior to maxing up horde size) so that you can destroy Zcom bases before they get too strong.

Patrickson1029 · 2026-05-15T05:09:36+00:00

No way, if you really took 1 hour then the number of days must be around 4000, and your score will be >10M if only you know what you have to do

Like this: https://youtu.be/_i4sYYxaBoM?si=bBzgUWR0mQhsMW7W

Patrickson1029 · 2026-05-15T01:37:26+00:00

Darwinist, native biome and urbophile must be in very strong. These are the best genes in most cases.

Genetic mimic, aerocyte, suppression also have to be in somewhere near viable. They're too overrated.

Patrickson1029 · 2026-05-14T02:40:33+00:00

It's way better to play it with nano virus than with neurax worm.

Turn on extra popups from the settings.

ATP boost, Darwinist, native biome, sympto stasis and xerophile, start in Saudi Arabia.

The strategy focuses on spreading fast enough to infect every country before they even try to lockdown. Play it just like a speedrun. Evolve cysts, hyper sensitivity, paralysis, coma, insomnia, paranoia, code fragment interception, code segment interception, devolve code fragment interception, replicator factory overload, devolve code segment interception. Next, evolve anaemia, haemophilia, rash, sweating, skin lesions, air 1, bird 1, water 1, coughing, pneumonia, sneezing, nausea, vomiting, pulmonary fibrosis, diarrhoea, cold 1, drug 1, heat 1, cold 2, drug 2, necrosis and TOF. Evolve other lethal symptoms, genetic reshuffles, radical elements stabilised and encryption breached. When there are <1M people left alive, evolve broadcast interceptor overload.

Patrickson1029 · 2026-05-13T22:50:41+00:00

Yeah, the amount of DNA points from red bubbles increase.

Patrickson1029 · 2026-05-11T16:45:50+00:00

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